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W. W. EATON. Perforating-Stamp.

No. 196,647. Patented Oct. 30, I877.

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spe'cifieation forniiiig eat of Letters Patent Not 196, 47, datedOctober 30, 1877; application filed I March 13, 12 377,;

Be it known that I, WILLIAM W. EAToN,

of Norwich, county of New London and State of Connecticut, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Perforating-Stamps, whichimprovements are fully set forth in the following specification andaccompanying Figure 1 is a front elevation;

. Fig. 2, aplan View; Fig. 3, a perspective view of sliding. head 5Fig.4, a partly sectional end view.

My invention relates to improvements in.

that class of check-punches in which the figures or charactersrepresenting the amount of the money-check are cut bodily from thepaper, to prevent the possibility of changing the face of the check tosome different amount;

and it consists, first, in the employment of a numerically-indexedstationary head, in which I are contained the figures or charactersrepresented on the index plataand which are forced,

attached to the sliding head, through correspondingly-formed female diesand the moneydesired tobe shown on the face of the check. In theaccompanying drawings, A is the body of check-punch. B is a sliding headthat moves horizontally on two rods, E E, and attached to said slidinghead are the lever 0, pointer D, a vertically-sliding bar, a,

ing verticallyin a recess, F,.situatedjin;the

upper part of sliding he'ad. Said plunger at and guide-pinf pass throughperforations in sliding head above and below the recess F. Said plunger"ct, guide-pin f, and verticallysliding bar 0 are retained intheir-places by means of the tension of a, coiled spring,-b, surroundingthe plunger a, the upper coil of a said spring bearing against the lowerface of the, vertically-sliding bar '0, and the lower A,*the outer faceof which is provided with a recess, G, in which aresituated elevenplungers,a' a, sliding vertically through perforaeach separately, bymeans of a lever and plunger 1 check, thus cutting from the latter theamount and attached to and'moving with'said bar are the plunger a andguide-pin f, the above movtions in the stationary head above and belowthe recess G. On the lower ends of said plun gcrs are cut or fixed maledies or cutters, preferably of steel, of the form of the nine numerals,zero, and a round projection, or any other character that may 'bedesired would answer as well. I are coiled springs surrounding theplungers a a, the upper parts of which bear against pins J. Said pinspass through and project out from two side faces of the plungers a a,the lower ends of said springs bearing against the lower faces of recessG, the tension of said springs thus raising the plungers a a, so thatthe face of the male dies will come flush with the lower face ofstationary head A after they have been depressed ary head A on the faceof which are figures or characters so arranged as to correspond with themale and female dies. 0 c are perforations in upper face of thestationary head A, with the upper end of the same countersunk, asrepresented inii, and are so made as to come in rear and in line ofperforation for plunger a a from front face of stationary head to backof the same.

The operation of punching the amount desired to be shown on the face ofthe check or paper is as follows, viz: The check being first placed onthe table B, so that the left-hand edge of said check will come in linewith the first right-hand graduation-line, the check being held to tableby the left hand, the right hand at the same time being placed on thelever and sliding heads, said sliding head is moved either to the rightor left, and stopped for the purpose of punching any desired figure orcharacter, when said figure or character on the index-plate is coveredby the pointer D. The leverG is then depressed, forcing down thevertically-sliding bar 0', plunger a, and the -guide-pinf. The point ofthe guide-pin exmale die cannot touch the check until the sliding headis in its proper position. fiaid point of guide-pinf first strikes onthe incline of countersink c i-that is, if the guide-pin is not directlyover the perforations c c, and these more readily let the guide-pin finto the perforations c (a -and at the same time bring the sliding headinto its proper position, and hold it there until the figure orcharacter is punched. After the first figure or character is punched thecheck is again moved from the first gradnation-line to the nextpreceding it to the left, and so on in succession until the amount' beshown on the face of the check is punched.

The above operation will so space the figure or character as to. show anequal distance be .e plungers a! c,perforations;g g gand countersink thewhole "substantially as described and j atween the s aineon of thecheckorfi p ap v 5 1: r What I claiJn' asi'n'yin tion, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

The sliding head B,provided with a lever, I I I V O, Vertica1 ly-slidingbars of, plunger a, guide pin'fi graduated'tahle'liigin combination withthe stationaryhead' A provided with for the purpose set forth. j

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